The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-03-05
BpOalbrinS New York Letter.

pOsltlOu ne HidWc OF HIS VAST tSldtt, Will
not be at all surprised that the heirs at last
have called on Judge Hilton for an ac-
counting The skeleton so successfully
hid behind the door is at last to he dragged
forth. and among other curious facts it
will now be made public If an empty maus-
oleum occupies the crypt of the splendid
cathedral at Garden City, or whether the
bones of Alexander Turney Stewart repose
beside the ashes of his wife What feast
for the lawyers what precious morse for
the millions who love little bit Of scandal
better than they love their prayers! Both
of the correspondents whose colossal pos
sessions are the cause of this unsecmly war
are beyond the reach Of praise or blame.
Nor steel, nor poison malice,
Domestic or foreign levy,
Nothing can touch them further"
But on the trial the seci ct history of dead
and buried years will be dragged into the
light of open day. Scandals, only limited
at in past years, will be headed in cold
print with loaded lines rs choice items of
the latest news. Characters that have
hitherto been sustained by the length of
| their rent-rolls and the strength of their
| bank accounts may be blasted beyond re-
| claim. Not a pleasant prospect, you say;
perhaps not; but what could you expect
from such a life! And with the news of the
suit agant Judge Hilton comes the intelli-
gence that all of the late Mrs. Stewards
wardrobe is to be disposed Of to the highest
bidder by auction. The only restriction be-
but relatives and friends-of which, how
ever. there are several hundred. | dent
know how it will affect those who are in
the habit of making merchandise of the
dead; but to me there is something mex
pressibly shocking in this sale. Imagine
the auctioneor roaring out the price of the
golden puif-boX from which she rouged
and powdered her faded charms, and dang
ling from his coarse fingers the dainty gold
ell curls in which she was arrayed by her
faithful maid two days before her death,
and with which the faded and decrepit old
woman of eighty years tried to restore the
beautiful Colneia Finch of sixty years be-
fore her pocket handkerchiefs, her stock
ngs, and all the little trinkets that were
dear TO her heart Going, going-gone!
"Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher;
All is vanity"
Fifty wigs, not one with grey hair ill.,
all of them of that soft golden color in
which her heart did so much delight
! oil pf d; pl, ,I
costly; shawls from Indian looms and laces
of fabulous value, and even the under
clothing of the dead woman under the
hammer,-Going, going-gone! New Yorl
has heard much of Stewards thrift during
the last fifty years, but it was unpreparet
for anything like this. A man who has
been such beneficiary of the Stewart es
tate as Judge Hilton has, and having the
whole matter in his discretion, might hav,
called the discontcnted heirs together ant
by appraisal have set 4 money value on The
goods and kept them from the public eye
brt lie has chosen the other course, and ii
so doing he has shocked the better sense Of
this entire community, and l shall not bt
surprised any day to see an advertisement
in the New York World, addressed to the
keepers of Dime Museums throughout tn,
country, Offering for sale the bones OF thC
dead millionaire, with satisfactory certiR
, Gates duly authenlicating their genuineness
That they would bring a good round sum
5 have not the least doubt; and in the hands
of Barnum or Buffalo Bill they might b,
: made to add some thousands to the prince
Z " Stewart estate. Garden City is to b,
: dsmembered and sold, and this is the end
e ing of Alexander Turney Stewards life
. work. Fifty millions, and-nothing!
Mrs. Maglnnis is dead. Who is she?-
You ask. The youngest daughter of tn
late Wm. NJ. Tweed of Ring memory ant
j the heroine Of the Diamond Wedding
Women have been married and given il
marriage before, but never on this con ii
nent was seen anything like the nuptials o
- this dead woman. At the time of her mar
riage her father was as virtually the auto
crat of New York as the Car is autocrat o
., the Russias. Nothing like her trouSsea
/ had ever been seen here previous to tina
time. 1t seemed as if all New York has
tened to do honor to the new Princess
q Tradesmen and politicians poured in thei
n gifts and men of the highest character wer
not ashamed to be found among the donors
Tom Fields sent diamond necklace an
r earrings that cost five thousand dollars, AN
W. L. King, jewels that cost five thousan
more. 1t took one immense room to hol
a the bridal gifts, and the money value wa
II estimated at $l5O,O00. On the day of tn
y wedding all official business was suspende
y throughout the city and many of the grea
It stores closed early in the afternoon. TT
beautiful young bride wore big diamonds a
y, buttons for her white satin CaiterS, and IN
- jewels on her person represented $4,000
: The heroes aud herones of that prou
, night have gone down to hopeless ruin
The happy father died in prison; Tor
Fields died in exile; Connolly and Sweene
.s were fugitives from justice; Jim Fisk wa
=. assassinated; Ingersoll and Garvey went t
States Prison; Prince Harry Genet di
time at Blackwelfs Island; another died /
the States Prison; two died in lunalic asy
lums, and one proud beauty-the wife {
d Tom Ficlds-perished in the gutter in fror
o Of the princely mansion on Fifth Avenu,
e where formerly she had presided as a Queer
And so they pass away. NothwithstanC
ing his iil-gotten millions, the father {
u this dead woman passed away loollin
Ie through prison bars; and right here | al
l. reminded that this week also passed ava
Tweed private secretary Foster S. Dewe!
MT. Dewey may not have been great ma
nor an especially good man, but he va
marked as the possessor of that uncommo
m quality among men-gratitude-which a
III ter all is one OF humanity's brightest an
rareSt ipWels